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How to Use PPA Purge in Ubuntu and Other Debian-based Distros

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Abhishek Prakash
Feb 18, 2021

PPA Purge is a command line tool that disables a PPA repository from your software sources list. Apart from that, it reverts the system back to official Ubuntu packages. This is a different behavior than simply deleting the PPA repository.
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